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Praxis II PLT 5-9 Test Prep - Question List

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36. Middle Vale High School works hard to prepare their students for standardized tests like the PSAT and SAT. In the 9th grade year, all students are given a standardized test to determine their current abilities. Once the students have taken the test, the tests are first graded to see the original data that each student has generated. The score associated with this grading system would be which of the following?
  1. Standard score
  2. Scaled Score
  3. Percentile Score
  4. Raw Score
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37. Zofia is a sixth-grade student that is very energetic and obviously sports inclined. She is a strong reader and works at grade-level in math, science and social studies. However, she is struggling with the traditional spelling test format. She says that she has a “bad memory” and that her mother has always told her this. Her Language Arts teacher decides to observe how Zofia studies her words during the allotted classroom time. During the ten minute session, Zofia fidgets and doodles on her papers. Occasionally, she reads a couple of the words and their definitions. Given these characteristics, which of the intelligences below would Gardner most likely identify as an appropriate instructional modality to utilize with Zofia?
  1. Intrapersonal
  2. Musical
  3. Verbal
  4. Kinesthetic
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38. After completing a unit on habitat conservation, Allendale Elementary School’s fifth-grade team takes their students on a field trip to a local wildlife center at a state nature preserve. While there, the students are given opportunities to touch living creatures native to the area and perform simple experiments focusing on various types of pollution and its effect on habitats. They then watch presentations on recycling and proper disposal of certain types of garbage. What would be the most logical justification for this field trip?
  1. To provide students with first-person, hands-on experiences that could deepen the students’ knowledge of the concepts contained within the conservation unit
  2. To encourage students to participate in community efforts to clean up litter on the roadsides and to report citizens that litter
  3. To build an anticipatory set for the next unit that the team will begin the following school day
  4. To assess the students’ mastery levels on the key concepts presented during the instructional phase of the conservation unit
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39. Mr. Hardin first teaches his sixth grade math class how to solve a basic, one-step algebraic equation. He then writes a two-step equation on the board and has the students get into pairs and attempt to solve it without further instruction. What concept of learning is Mr. Hardin most likely hoping his students will experience?
  1. Transference
  2. Extrinsic motivation
  3. Over generalization
  4. Metacognition
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40. Mr. Sinnott is teaching Romeo and Juliet to his class of 9th graders. He wants to incorporate as many learning styles into his instruction as possible. Which strategy would work best for the auditory learners in his classroom?
  1. Having the text read aloud as the students read from their own text
  2. Silent reading of Act I
  3. Having student directors oversee the reading of each scene
  4. Asking students to memorize a favorite monologue
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